myChEMBL running on KVM

Recently ChEMBL team released a revised version on myChEMBL (#18) virtual machine, which is standalone image for VirtualBox. myChEMBL allows to deploy your private ChEMBL, although not fully featured, but still very useful. Actually the new release supports installing VM straight from the Vagrant Cloud, which is “just two commands”. But… That’s the case if you have Vagrant set up, or at least Virtual Box, which might not be straightforward. Here, I give you few tips how to run the myChEMBL on generic Linux hypervisor – KVM. It’s really easy if you know your way around VMs in general, but for those not that familiar with KVM this steps should save the day.

Download myChEMBL image [link], just the largest disk image with .vmdk extension